ARMY & NAVY: Tacit Conviction

At
San Diego, Calif., a court martial dissolved itself and disappeared,
leaving behind it the announcement that it had "adjourned to await
the action of the convening authority."

The force of this announcement was that the defendant had been found
guilty and the Secretary of the Navy must announce the sentence, for
in cases of acquittal it is the invariable rule that the defendant be
notified before the court adjourns.